Burial Pit (Site Type Keyword)
Parent: Funerary and Burial Structures or Features
An unmarked human interment in a subterranean pit.
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The descriptive and analytical reports of the expert team that investigated the Kennewick remains in April, 2000, and the subsequent DNA analyses that were performed between May and September, 2000. NOTE: The Taphonomy report and Chapter 5 of the complete Report and the combined PDF ("whole document") contain small images of human bone from the Kennewick skeletal remains and may not considered inappropriate for viewing by some.
Reports on the Cultural Affiliation of the Kennewick Man (2000)
This report details four studies by experts in anthropological, archeological, cultural, and historical topics relevant to the determination of whether the Kennewick man remains could be culturally affiliated under the terms of NAGPRA.
Research Design to Mitigate the Adverse Effect on NM 0:3:1:11 (LA 87432), Kirtland Air Force Base (1981)
At the request of the U.S. Air Force, the Center for Anthropological Studies has completed a research design to mitigate the ongoing natural erosion of NM 0:3:1:11 (LA 87432). This is a prehistoric Rio Grande Anasazi habitation site believed to have been used during A.D. 1100-1200. The acceptance and use of this research design to guide the recovery of this site's archaeological data is considered justification for making a determination of no adverse effect upon it.
Research Design: Approach to Documentation, Analysis, Interpretation, and Disposition of Human Remains Inadvertently Discovered at Columnbia Park, Kennewick, WA (1998)
This document is the initial research design developed for the investigation of the ancient human skeleton dscovered in the shallow water of Lake Wallulla, Kennewick, Washington. The design described in this document was used to organize the historical and scientific research carried out by the Department of the Interior and Corps of Engineers to provide a factual basis for resolving the controversy and legal dispute related to the human remains. The research design was intended to carry out...
Research Design: For Archaeological Data Recovery Along the Salt River Project Coronado Coal Haul Railroad (1990)
The following document constitutes a research design for archaeological data recovery within planned expansions of the Salt River Project Coronado Coal Haul Railroad.The project area is located in Apache County, Arizona, south of Interstate 40 near the town of Navajo. Three sites were listed in the project RFP and specific information regarding the impacts to those sites and the location of the sites in relation to the Coal Haul Railroad were provided in that document. The research design is...
Results of Archaeological Testing at the Periphery of Honey Bee Village, AZ BB:9:88 (ASM), and at AZ BB:9:450 (ASM), Oro Valley, Pima County, Arizona (2018)
Archaeological investigations were conducted along the periphery of Honey Bee Village, AZ BB:9:88 (ASM), and in the floodplain of Honey Bee Wash prior to construction activities by Mattamy Arizona, LLC. Honey Bee Village is a large, National Register-eligible site that contains a plaza, a ballcourt and more than 380 pit structures and 277 excavated mortuary features. The goal of the current project was to identify any mortuary features and to excavate them respectfully, before they might be...
Results of Data Recovery at Pueblo Del Rio, AZ:T:12:116(ASM) for the El Paso Natural Gas 2039 Line Relocation/Removal Project Southwest Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (2005)
Data recovery was completed at Pueblo del Rio as specified in the work plan developed after the testing phase. The purpose of the data recovery was to recover sufficient information from the portion of Pueblo del Rio within the EPNG right-of-way to answer general research questions as outlined in the treatment plan and to mitigate the adverse effect of the proposed EPNG undertaking on the cultural resources within the right-of-way. These goals were accomplished. However, the highly disturbed...
Results of Eligibility Testing and Data Recovery Plan for Multiple Locations and Sites Along the Arizona Department of Transportation Red Mountain Freeway (State Route 202) Project Right-of-Way (State Route 87 to Gilbert Road) (2016)
The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) plans to extend the Red Mountain Freeway through Mesa, Arizona from State Route (SR) 87 to US Route (US) 60. This project will result in the construction of a new limited access six-lane freeway. Construction on the right-of-way is currently confined to the area between SR 87 and Gilbert Road. The proposed route runs through an area of dense historic and prehistoric cultural resources south of McDowell Road, and passes through the northern edge of...
Results of Phase I Data Recovery at Pozos de Sonoqui, AZ 11:14:49 (ASM), Along the Planned Riggs Road Alignment, Queen Creek, Maricopa County, Arizona (2007)
Between August 13 and 24, 2007, Phase I data recovery excavations were conducted within a 1,550-m-long by 43-m-wide segment of the planned Riggs Road corridor that extends through the northern portion of AZ U:14:49 (ASM)—also known as Pozos de Sonoqui—a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)- eligible prehistoric site in southeastern Maricopa County. The project uses Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) funding to be administered by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) Local...
Return to Siphon Draw: Archaeological Investigations Along the Browning to Dinosaur 500kV/230kV Transmission Line, Pinal County, Arizona (2009)
The results of archaeological investigations at three prehistoric Hohokam sites within the right-of-way corridor for the Salt River Project Browning to Dinosaur Transmission Line, east of Mesa and Queen Creek, Arizona, are presented in this report. The sites include the Siphon Draw site, AZ U:10:6 (ASM), a pre-Classic period (circa A.D. 800-1000) village; AZ U:10:8 (ASM), a classic period (circa A.D. 1150-1450) wild resource-processing and habitation site; and AZ U:10:172 (ASM), a Colonial...
Review and Comment on the Draft Research Design (20 October 1998): Approach to Documentation, Analysis, Interpretation, and Disposition of Human Remains Inadvertently Discovered at Columbia Park, Kennewick, WA (1998)
This document is an independent review of the ten page DOI draft research design that details the structured approach to be followed in the analysis and interpretation of human remains recovered from the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. This review addresses three general topics: (1) an analysis of the general approach and procedures described in the document considering whether these are logical, scientifically sound, and likely to produce information needed to make reasonable...
Review Draft: Archaeological Test Excavations at Seven Sites along the Santan Expansion Project Pipeline Corridor from Gilbert to Coolidge, Maricopa and Pinal Counties, Arizona (2003)
Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed archaeological testing at seven sites along a proposed natural-gas pipeline at the request of the Salt River Project (SRP). The purpose of the testing was to determine the extent and eligibility status of the seven sites for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Two of the sites, AZ U:10:2(ASM) and AZ U:14:74(ASM), have been previously determined NRHP eligible based on their potential to inform on the prehistory of the region, but...
A Review of Human and Natural Changes in Maya Lowlands Wetlands Over the Holocene
In the Maya Lowlands of Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala two main types of wetlands have played important roles in human history: bajos or intermittently wet environments of the upland, interior Yucatán and perennial wetlands of the coastal plains. Many of the most important Maya sites encircle the bajos, though our growing evidence for human-wetland interactions is still sparse. The deposits of these wetlands record two main eras of slope instability and wetland aggradation: the...
A Review of Human and Natural Changes in Maya Lowlands Wetlands over the Holocene (2009)
In the Maya Lowlands of Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala two main types of wetlands have played important roles in human history: bajos or intermittently wet environments of the upland, interior Yucatán and perennial wetlands of the coastal plains. Many of the most important Maya sites encircle the bajos, though our growing evidence for human-wetland interactions is still sparse. The deposits of these wetlands record two main eras of slope instability and wetland aggradation: the...
Review: "Department of Interior Approach to Documentation, Analysis, Interpretation, and Disposition of Human Remains Inadvertently Discovered at Columbia Park, Kennewick, WA" (Draft Document of 20 October 1998) (1998)
The draft DOI document reviewed here provides an overview of (1) the context for discovery, plan of study, and disposition of a set of human remains found at Columbia Park, Kennewick, WA; (2) consultation with Indian tribes; (3) nondestructive procedures for study; (4) procedures for other tests, including destructive analyses, and (5) investigations for determining cultural affiliation if the analysis indicates that the remains are of Native American ancestry, as defined by NAGPRA. The...
Rio Nuevo Archaeology, 2000‐2003: Investigations at the San Agustín Mission and Mission Gardens, Tucson Presidio, Tucson Pressed Brick Company, and Clearwater Site (2006)
Between October 2000 and January 2003, Desert Archaeology, Inc., conducted archaeological investigations at seven locations for the City of Tucson as part of the Rio Nuevo Archaeology project. The City of Tucson plans to revitalize the downtown area, including the re-creation of the historic San Agustín Mission and the Spanish Presidio fortress, as well as the construction of new homes and businesses. Excavations were conducted to either provide basic data for planned reconstructions, or to...
RITUAL DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL IDENTITIES: A STUDY OF MORTUARY BEHAVIORS AT TEOTIHUACAN (2009)
The research presented here confronts the issue of ritual variation and its role in structuring the social dynamics of ancient Teotihuacan, a state that dominated central Mexico during the first half-millennium A.D. Most of Teotihuacan’s urban population lived in apartment compounds located across the city, but the nature of these co-residing groups is not well understood. Even less is known about how subordinate settlements beyond the city limits were organized and to what degree they...
River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 25 Archeology of the John H. Kerr Reservoir Basin, Roanoke River Virginia-North Carolina (1962)
During the period from February 14 to May 1, 1947, a preliminary archaeological reconnaissance was made of the John H. Kerr (formerly Buggs Island) Reservoir area in Mecklenburg, Halifax, and Charlotte Counties, in Virginia, and Varren, Vance, and Granville Counties, in North Carolina, by the River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution (Miller, 1947). The work was done at the request of the National Park Service, which, in turn, cooperated with the United States Corps of Engineers in...
River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 8: Excavations in the McNary Reservoir Basin Near Umatilla, Oregon (1957)
The archeological sites described herein were excavated during August and early September of 1948 in the McNary Reservoir, as part of the River Basin Surveys' program for the salvage of scientific and historic remains from areas to be flooded by the dams being built or to be built by the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, and the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior. McNary Reservoir itself will occupy the Columbia River from Umatilla, Oregon, up to some 12 miles beyond...
River Basin Surveys Papers: Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program, No. 26-32 (1963)
The seven reports which comprise the present volume of River Basin Surveys Papers pertain to work which was done in four reservoir areas in the Missouri Basin. Two of the reservoirs are located in North Dakota, one in Montana, and one in Kansas. The North Dakota reservoirs are the Garrison on the main stem of the Missouri River, located some distance above Bismarck, and the Jamestown on the James River above the town of Jamestown in the eastern part of the State. The Montana reservoir is the...
River Basin Surveys Papers: Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program, No. 7 Archaeological Investigations in the Oahe Dam Area, South Dakota, 1950-51 (1954)
The accompanying report on Archeological Investigations in the Oahe Dam Area, South Dakota, is Paper No.7 in the River Basin Surveys Papers and constitutes the second Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin to be devoted to results of the Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program. It is the first detailed, technical report to be issued covering a completed series of excavations carried on by the Missouri Basin Project of the River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution. The area where the...
Rock Eagle Effigy Mounds and Related Structures in Putnam County, Georgia (1956)
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S.R. 260 - Payson to Heber Archaeological Project: Results of Archaeological Testing and a Plan for Data Recovery in the Christopher Creek Segment (2000)
Results of data recovery in the Christopher Creek segment of State Route 260.
S.R. 260 - Payson to Heber Archaeological Project: Results of Archaeological Testing and a Plan for Data Recovery in the Little Green Valley Segment (2002)
Results of archaeological testing at the Little Green Valley section of the State Route 260 - Payson to Heber project.
S.R. 260 - Payson to Heber Archaeological Project: Results of Archaeological Testing and a Plan for Data Recovery in the Preacher Canyon Segment and Sharp Creek Campground (2000)
Results of archaeological testing and data recovery plan for the Preacher Canyon and Sharp Creek sections of the State Route 260 - Payson to Heber project.